841 Ken Burns American Stories - Empire of the Air Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students will evaluate the impact of radio as compared to other current broadcast media, including television, magazines, and newspapers. They will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio and view current news coverage on television using question sheets provided to evaluate and compare coverage.... 842 Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students need direct comprehension instruction using varied activities to become better readers. Drawing inferences from text and analyzing texts by comparison are important strategies to help students develop deeper comprehension.... 843 A Directed Listening–Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart" Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students listen to a read aloud of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Telltale Heart while recording their answers to prediction questions using a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA). Following a discussion of the story, they respond by using online interactives to create either a comic strip or an acrostic poem that summarizes the story.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students engage in a series of activities comparing Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The lesson is part of a larger unit and is intended to be used for conducting a comparative analysis after reading both plays.... 845 Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students study setting, plot, and character development in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, and discuss its impact on American theatre. Suggestions for experiencing the play by reading and analyzing it in small groups, as a whole class, and independently are included along with discussion questions.... 846 What Does this Song Really Say? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides an opportunity for students to understand the experience of a slave trying to escape captivity through the Underground Railroad. Students listen to and sing African-American spirituals, and then learn the "coded messages" or true meaning of the lyrics. Once students understand the secret signals and passwords communicated through spirituals, they write their own original lyrics that contain coded... 847 Writing an Original Fable Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the elements of fables. Links are provided to websites featuring wide collections of fables.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the common elements of various types of folktales (e.g. tall tales, fairy tales, animal tales).... 849 Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this series of interdisciplinary lessons, students read and discuss young adult historical fiction set in the time of slavery and the Underground Railroad. Characterization is particularly emphasized along with a consideration of the criteria for historical fiction. Students also have the opportunity to work together conducting online research through a Road to Freedom WebQuest.... 850 Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare’s Secret Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Shakespeare’s Secret, a young adult mystery novel by Elise Broach, includes many historical details from William Shakespeare’s life. These details enhance the story and expose students to the discussion some scholars are having regarding the possibility that Edward de Vere is actually the author of Shakespeare's works.... |